Pimelea linifolia subsp. linifolia
Slender Rice-flowerShrub from prostrate to 1.2(–1.5)m high. Leaves usually narrowly elliptic, sometimes narrowly lanceolate to narrowly obovate or elliptic, medium to dark green on upper surface, paler or rarely similar on lower surface, 4–29 mm long, 1–9 mm wide; margins incurved or rarely recurved. Inflorescence erect or pendulous, 7–many-flowered; involucral bracts usually ovate, rarely lanceolate, 7–17 mm long, 5–11 mm wide, green or partly reddish. Flowers usually not much longer than bracts, white, pink or very rarely yellow; floral tube 10–16 mm long. Flowers Jun.–Jan.
LoM, Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Tas. (including Bass Strait islands). A variable subspecies occupying a wide range of habitats throughout most of Victoria.
Very rarely, more than 4 involucral bracts subtend the flowers in this subspecies (Rye 1990).
Entwisle, T.J. (1996). Thymelaeaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 912–930. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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